Contemplate and balance intention Open light harmony’s attentionNightingale will sing the tale at dawnJuxtaposed against moon sky madnessUndulating pink ribbons go forthReaching, reaching, until gentle touchEnergizes the willing target top image is of Kiki from the anime film, “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says:Write an acrostic poem with…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Haibun Monday — childhood recollections
“A Cottage Garden,” by Henry Sutton Grandpa and Grandma lived at the bottom of a hill where three dirt roads converged. Their home had been Grandpa’s parents and cobbled together from a number of summer cottages that had been along Mxxx Lake and moved a mile or so around the 1940’s to its acre…
Kerfe’s RWG 10 — Unused Beach
Slip of unraveled rope still flaps and whips, a fluffy snake pain marker; company in leprous shade. I avoid this place of sacrifice but miss your attention; on impulse I’ve dressed my ravaged face, Fascinated in morbid fashion at its folded and patted ratty clam, and make my way to unused beach. Half-buried wreck juts…
red pine prayers (senryu)
Red pine fingers reachoffer praise in willow’s churchin a too blue world
Call for Submissions: 99 words or 99 syllables on the theme of fire — you have until the end of May to submit!
Have you submitted??? 🔥 You can submit three (3) entries. If you’ve already sent in one entry… why not write two more? 🔥 Carrot Ranch Literary Community Around the Campfire is a bi-annual publication of quality fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, and poetry in the specific styles of 99 words or 99 syllables (Double Ennead). The […]…
Tanka Tuesday 320 — New Pearls
seasons sing of struggle chores demand our action can’t get any traction down and just can’t juggle underserved with chuckles need reboot of passion daydreams of sweet dally night dreams filled with diddle double cream finale noted worthy assay notch headboard with tally answers need no riddle mindful be in both worlds oyster growing new…
dVerse — Poetics — Alchemy of Freedom
Ahmad Shamlou The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. — Ai Weiwei They cough at soot of hell’s belchlong before others smell smoke. They hear change in morning notes;doves flutter away, ravens…
Tao-Talk 